1st Edition
Young People Reading Empirical Research Across International Contexts
Introduction Evelyn Arizpe and Gabrielle Cliff Hodges SECTION 1 MAKING ADOLESCENT READING CHOICES VISIBLE 1 The possibilities of comics reading: Uncovering a complex and situated reading experience in Canada Lucia Cedeira Serantes 2 The residue of fiction in the memory of adolescence: The potential effect of reading fiction in Turkey Osman Coban 3 Rivers of reading: A research method to explore young adults’ personal reading histories Gabrielle Cliff Hodges SECTION 2 ADOLESCENT READING IN TIMES OF CRISIS 4 Reading fears and opportunities: Researching changes over 25 years in the literacy practices of Mexican adolescents Evelyn Arizpe and Laura Guerrero-Guadarrama 5 Young adults’ attitudes towards reading in Lebanon Nayla Aramouni 6 ‘I think I was born with a suitcase’: Blackfoot adolescent readers’ responses to Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Erin Spring SECTION 3 YOUNG ADULT READERS’ EXPERIENCES WITHIN AND BEYOND SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY 7 Adolescent reading habits: The effect of school activities on reading practices Mireia Manresa 8 Young people reading in Uganda: Making connections between literature and reality Rebecca Nambi 9 Exploring post-16 literature in English in a Malaysian classroom: A hermeneutic phenomenological perspective Jia Wei Lim 10 Pressure, pleasure and function: Malaysian undergraduates reading across boundaries in a university in England Su Li Chong Conclusion Evelyn Arizpe and Gabrielle Cliff Hodges
Biography
Evelyn Arizpe is Senior Lecturer at the School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK.
Gabrielle Cliff Hodges is former Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Cambridge, UK.
